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Alexander Hamilton And The National Debt
Number of Words: 408 / Number of Pages: 2
... goods, in hopes of protecting American manufacturers. Congress did not pass this bill. This did not stop Hamilton. He came up with another plan to raise money, an excise tax on distilled liquors. Congress adopted this proposal, but probably wished they had not. The proposal was very unpopular, so unpopular that it caused a rebellion. Out of all these strategies the one that had an impact on the development of political parties was the creation of the national bank.
The creation of the national bank unraveled the issue of Constitutionality. Some people followed the literal interpretation known ...
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The Civil War
Number of Words: 2485 / Number of Pages: 10
... also to protect their way of life. Because they did not want to change their lifestyles like the North.
On February 4, the seceding states met in Montgomery, Alabama. There, they formed the Confederate States of America. They also made Montgomery their capital. They wrote a constitution, chose a legislature, and elected a president. The president that was elected was Jefferson Davis from Mississippi, and a vice-president, Alexander Stephens.
Jefferson Davis was born in 1808 in Christian County, Kentucky. As a boy he grew up in Mississippi and went to a catholic school. Then he went t ...
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The Influence Rock And Rap Music Has On Young People
Number of Words: 1040 / Number of Pages: 4
... also come from CDs that are just bass. Everyone has experienced sitting at a stoplight when a car pulls up next to you with his or her radio is so loud your car starts shaking and you can't even think. The lyrics and beat of rock and rap may influence people to do such negative acts at such a young age.
Sex plays an enormous part in music. Look at the way music artists dress, what they say in their lyrics or the music beat, and the title of the records. Some music artists dress inappropriately and wear next to nothing, in my opinion. We see the very popular Spice Girls, a new pop band, made up of five ...
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The Tribulations Of Sharecrop Farmers
Number of Words: 680 / Number of Pages: 3
... of farmers homes
were rarely screened(Jones 55). The shoddy houses that they lived in could
not be helped, but it did not improve there defenses against disease.
Being so open to disease by the housing, it was no surprise that
various illnesses struck the south with a vengeance. Housing was not the
only way that farmers opened themselves up to disease, sharecroppers were
often deprived of adequate food and clothing(Walker 92). The insufficient
food among families of farmers was a side-effect of the sharecropping
system(Walker 6). Of the food eaten not very much of it was considered
part of ...
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Severan Copy Of Athena Parthenos And 13th Century Virgin And
Number of Words: 1772 / Number of Pages: 7
... came to power in the late second century. Marcus Aurelius¹ son Commodus succeeded his father in 180, only to inherit an empire that was becoming increasingly harder to uphold , and imperial order was being threatened. Eventually, he was assassinated , and the Roman world was thrown into civil discord. Septimius Severus emerged as the new emperor in 193 after proclaiming himself to be Marcus Aurelius¹ son. 2
The Severan¹s hometown was called Lepcis Magna, on the coast of what is now Libya. In the early third century the port city used imperial funds to ornament itself with a new for ...
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Birmingham, Alabama And The Civil Rights Movement
Number of Words: 1215 / Number of Pages: 5
... chanting freedom songs and hymns." (p.163) For a seven-day period in May 1963, the nation was exposed to these and similar pictures (some of which appear in the book). Reports of the incidents in Birmingham moved President John F. Kennedy to remark that "the civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln." (p. 164)
A biography of a man and the times in which he lived stirs readers' sensibilities more than the antiseptic and analytic accounts provided by a textbook or treatise. A biography exposes the emotions of its subject and the people in h ...
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Shoeless Joe And The Black Sox Scandal
Number of Words: 408 / Number of Pages: 2
... there was a turnover in
the Illinois State Attorney's Office and all the confessions mysteriously
disappeared. The three baseball players then said they didn't sign the
confessions so the case was dropped. The new commissioner for Major League
Baseball was Kenesaw Mountain Landis and he believed three players were
guilty. He also believed they weren't the only ones on the team that threw
the series. Kenesaw Mountain Landis kicked seven players from the White
Sox team of 1919 out of Major League Baseball for life. Eddie Cicotte,
Chick Gandil, Clause Williams, Happy Felsch, Swede Risberg, Fred McMu ...
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America: One Nation
Number of Words: 1463 / Number of Pages: 6
... from Greece. This Doctrine “committed the United States to permanent European presence (Lecture 28, D4).” This meant the U.S. would need to keep a strong military at hand. The Government sought to maintain its’ military dominance, and further the development of the atom bomb. Thus a nuclear age began.
Before the war, the American people were unsettled by the Great Depression. Unemployment was high. But the Second World War brought a lot of people into the work force, including women. While the men were at war, the women were at work. The standard before had been for men to work, and women t ...
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Utopia...Model Or Reality
Number of Words: 1672 / Number of Pages: 7
... question of overcoming man's inherent evils in such a way More creates a perfect society to be modeled after. Many of the ideals in More's Utopia are, as the name implies, based on ideal situations and not reality. They would work well in a civilization of automatons, but would be abolished quickly in a human situation. Nevertheless, we can apply the ideals held by the Utopians to our own societies since the ideals themselves are attainable even if a perfect society is not.
More seems to think that the seven deadly sins will be fairly easy to overcome. Pride, for instance, is counterbalanced in ...
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Existentialism In Film
Number of Words: 4130 / Number of Pages: 16
... film. As I said, I do not necessarily assert that the film noir genre is a direct result of the popularity of existentialist philosophy in America. Film noir does, however, represent some of the first serious confrontation with truly dark subject matter, much of which was provoked more by film makers' insight into the contemporary American scene than by their third reading of Being and Nothingness. Film noir does not treat existentialism per se, but it does concern itself with the dark, the absurd and disturbing, the amoral and the severe; in short, it handles material that has come to be thought of ...
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